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By the time officers arrived on scene, the suspected assailant had been shot and killed inside the school building. It is unclear who shot the suspect.
I suppose if you work in an elementary school these days, you know the Calvary isn't coming in and you're on your own. My guess is a teacher took down the shooter.
A very common mixup, but I think you mean cavalry. Calvary has a very different meaning.
Calvary: site outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified according to the Gospels
Hmm. Maybe it could mean thoughts and prayers won’t work?
Or they took themselves out
Bend is very "rural hippie" coded still and I would guess you are right. Central and eastern Oregon still has a super high gun ownership rate
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Why can't these fuckers decide to shoot a fucking billionaire or some politician? Why is it always a school and in most cases elementary ones?
Because they're failures and failures seek easy targets.
For context, Bend is a small city in eastern oregon.
Portland, Salem (the capital) and Eugene (2nd biggest city) are all in the williamette valley in the west. The eastern 2/3rds is mostly high alpine desert and very sparsely populated.
Bend is small, but the largest settlement in the east, and fairly wealthy. Eastern OR is basically Idaho, culturally, but Bend is ritzier and richer than the rest of East OR.
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There is nothing we could do, says someone who hasn't tried anything.
The price we pay for cosplaytriotism
Wow for once there actually was a "good guy with a gun". Probably not a great strategy anyway, because the death toll is too high still.
Very fucking sad case. 16 year old shooter and he picks an elementary school of all things? Fuck.
16-year-old shooter is pretty common for elementary school shootings
My best friend's niece was injured in a mass shooting at her elementary school. The shooter was 18
It's honestly a bit hard for me to feel sad about the shootings any more. There are so many. This was like the 150th school shooting this year alone
It's simply part of American life
Just another day in America. Unfortunately.
Without knowing any details of this case and the actual situation that happened - at one point in time, a civilian with a firearm opened fire at another (minor) with a firearm because there was a possible danger scenario near a school. How did the "good guy" in this scenario know exactly that this was the right call to open fire, and not just another possible "good guy with a gun"?
In this case, he was evidently correct, well done! But it could easily have become a terrible blue-on-blue scenario as well.
To me, this single "good guy with a gun" scenario does not justify the fact that firearms are so widespread that the "bad guy" easily got his own, and became more deadly as a result.
Also do we want every random vigilante carrying and deciding who is or isn’t a threat in general? If a police officer busts in and hurts an innocent while taking this shooter down it’s already a huge enough can of worms.. if this guy did, now is he criminally liable or are we giving random citizens qualified immunity?
Also do we want every random vigilante carrying and deciding who is or isn’t a threat in general?
There's a shit ton of conservatives in this country, so the answer to that question is a massive FUCK NO. We can't even trust them to do things that benefit themselves. I have very little faith in the humans around me when I'm out in public. I don't want them playing judge, jury, and executioner.
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Statistically gun owners are more likely to shoot themselves or their family than to use the gun in defense
That includes both accidental and intentional use of the gun
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the kid shot 4 people and you don't understand why someone considered them a threat?
I agree that the good guy with a gun thing is generally a myth and usually causes more trouble than good, but in this case I don't think it was a hard judgement call...
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Read it was a special needs class that was attacked; teacher tried to stop the shooter by placing herself between the kids and the shooter and seize the gun.
Unfortunately the shooter's name has been revealed. Infamy is what these nihilists want.
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